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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The shot of Koichi falling to his knees and shouting in anguish as black rain falls around him is one of the most arresting things I'd ever seen in film. Truly harrowing.

Scene from the movie Godzilla Minus One (2023). An injured Japanese man kneels among the scattered debris of a ruined street, his face contorted by a howl of anguish. A black rain is beginning to fall, staining both the man and the ruined city.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

By the end of WWII, America was out-producing the axis on tanks at a margin of something like 6:1, and then they were shipping the damn things across an ocean, through a submarine blockade, and across one or two continents. To say nothing of fuel, ammo, food, etc. A mind-boggling enterprise.

An M4 Sherman tank on an assembly line during the second World War. The tank is rolling down a tunnel which is lined with hundreds of infrared heat lamps. The lamps are baking a coat of weatherproof paint on the tank, shortening the drying time from a 24 hours down to 4 minutes.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Rewatched the Blade (1998, etc) movies a while ago and I can't stop thinking about Blade's haircut. It must require pretty frequent touch-ups, but he moves around so much to hunt vampires. Does he do the upkeep himself? Does Whistler trim it? Does he have a barbershop that he goes to regularly?

Wesley Snipes in the movie Blade (1998) as the titular character Blade. A composite image displays his complex haircut from two different angles. The haircut is a widow's peak high-top with a chevron cut into the back with no fade. The edge of the hair in the back and sides is trimmed in such a way that it is incorporated into the design of a large tribal tattoo on the back of his neck.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There was a short-lived animated sitcom about a fictionalized version of NPR's Car Talk called Click and Clack As the Wrench Turns. In episode 1, "Campaign," the boys attempt to do campaign finance fraud by exploiting federal fund matching. James Carville guest stars as himself. I swear this is real

A DVD of PBS Home Video Presents: Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns. The cover art features a cast of cartoon characters situated around a vintage automobile.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There is of course Cima Garahau, who is implicated in sole very exciting war crimes during the One Year War and after the defeat of Zeon splinters off her own forces as an independent pirate fleet. I really like her, I'd let her murder me.

The character Cima Garahau as seen in the Gundam series 0083 Stardust Memories.
A beautiful and evil older woman wearing a military uniform is holding a large Japanese-style folding fan. She is seating in her captain's chair which has been strapped with a white tiger pelt. She has the kind of menacing energy that could make a fella (or lady) bark like a dog.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There was a really good Flintstones book that DC put out in 2016 (Mark Russell/Steve Pugh) and this was a B-plot in it.

Panel from a Flintstones comic.
Inset text: "The non-breeders have our tribe extra hands to help with the children. Having them around often meant the difference between life and death."
A young cave boy is assisted in climbing a sheer cliff face by his mother and two (gay) cave men. One of the cave men is helping to pull the boy over the edge, saying "It's okay. We've got Freddie."

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Equilibrium (2002) remains near and dear to my heart as an exemplar of a favorite taxonomic group of movies; "Films with a Wide Disparity Between Critic and Audience Scores On Rottontomatoes." Just an excellent metric for describing a specific type of movie enjoyed by a specific type of guy.

Screenshot of rottontomatoes.com. The page is for the movie Equilibrium (2002). The critic reviews are 40% positive and the audience reviews are 81% positive.

Screenshot of rottontomatoes.com. The page is for the movie The Boondock Saints (1999). The critic reviews are 26% positive and the audience reviews are 91% positive.

Screenshot of rottontomatoes.com. The page is for the movie Saw III (2006). The critic reviews are 28% positive and the audience reviews are 71% positive.

Screenshot of rottontomatoes.com. The page is for the movie The Forever Purge (2021). The critic reviews are 48% positive and the audience reviews are 78% positive.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I might be talking out of my ass, but I feel like this "both sides" marketing wasn't nearly as prevalent before Disney bought the franchise

Dueling Star Wars propaganda posters for the New Republic and the First Order, exhorting the viewer to choose the light or dark side respectively

Graphic incorporating symbols for the Star Wars factions of both the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire. The caption reads: "CHOOSE WISELY"

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Alan Moore wrote "For the Man who Has Everything," one of the all-timer Superman one-shots. Is it an intimate character study? Yes. Does it indirectly condemn political reactionaries? Also yes. BUT! Do Supes and his pals fistfight Mongul the Conqererfor several pages? You bet your ass they do.

First page of the Superman comic "For the Man Who Has Everything." Batman, Robin, and Wonder Woman have arrived at Superman's Fortress of Solitude only to find the the Man of Steel paralyzed and transfixed, gripped by the thorny vines of a nefarious alien plant.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I think Darktide has a particularly good depiction of the bolter. A huge and impractical crate of a weapon. You kind of have to manhandle it into shooting position, it obliterates anything it hits, and it chews through its (extremely scarce) ammo faster than you can blink. Simply too much gun.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Also there should be an Imperial Remnant turned pirate queen Cima Garahau type. Star Wars could use more ruthlessly evil older women. All media could, as a matter of fact.

The anime woman Cima Garahau from the show Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory.
An older woman with long hair wears a military uniform and sits in a captain's chair which has been draped with a white tiger hide. She fans herself with a theatrically large Japanese fan.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I believe Dwayne McDuffie passed away a few years back but he was the a lead guy on the Justice League/JLU cartoon. Had a ton of other animation credits, too. No shot he ever got paid what he deserved or that his creations got the limelight they warranted, but he was a big deal his whole career.

Comic book creature Dwayne McDuffie looks into the camera, a background of comic book panels behind him. Dwayne is a Black man with short hair and a goatee with glasses.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Games Workshop has beefed it with the upcoming City of Ash box for AoS. Human mercenaries vs. Skaven of Clan Eshin in the smoking ruins of a once-proud city? Fantasy urban ruin terrain? This was the perfect opportunity for a thematic reboot of Mordheim set in the Mortal Realms! You came so close!

City of Ash box for Age of Sigmar. Humans and rat men fight in a ruined city.

Original Mordheim boxed set. Humans and rat men fight in the ruins of a city.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

As a One Piece reader, this is how it feels when my friends who enjoyed Netflix's live action One Piece come to me with questions about the series. #onepiece #opla

Picture of Jesus Christ offering the divine wisdom of His teachings

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Showed a friend of mine a picture of a young Minoru Suzuki and she instantly began twirling her hair as some kind of pavlovian response

A page from a Japanese wrestling magazine. A Minoru Suzuki, seen in his 20s or something, flexes in shorts for the camera. His Adonis-like physique is oiled and muscular. His beautiful face has an impossibly chiseled jaw and cheekbones.
A smaller inset image shows him with jeans and a T-shirt.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There's a model based on McConaughey's character in the Spanish-made SF miniature wargame Infinity. Every time I see it I have to wonder if maybe Reign of Fire (2002) was bigger in Europe than in the US, and I just never heard why.

A miniature figurine for the wargame Infinity. A small figure of a grim-looking army guy with a vest, an axe, and a shaved head and beard.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

>John Blanche would play it in a heartbeat, Pic related, it's John Blanche (on the right) playing Trench Crusade lol www.reddit.com/r/TrenchCrus...

Three dudes are situated around a table, playing with toy soldiers. The man to the right, wearing a hat, is identified as artist John Blanche.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hey I see that light warjack repurposed as heavy machine infantry in the back there. I am also recycling old Cygnar models into Eire Rangers. Great minds etc

A little toy soldier man with a rifle and an envelope cap

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Craftworld Lugganath? A great choice. I'm doing a band of Corsairs with some inspiration from that scheme. Used Jokaero Orange for the base, wash Fuegan Orange, highlight with Troll Slayer Orange and then Fire Dragon Bright. It's hard to do an orange that doesn't look like a creamsicle at the end.

Three wargaming miniatures. Space elf ninja pirates from Warhammer 40k. Their armor is orange and black and they are armed with a variety of nonsense future weapons.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It is a true genius storytelling technique of Fujimoto's to take the impossibly high-stakes apocalyptic conflict of Chainsaw Man's second arc, and shackle it to two of the dumbest babies ever witnessed in any medium. #chainsawman #csm223

A selection of panels from the comic Chainsaw Man.
In the first panel, the titular Chainsaw Man (a devil-human hybrid with chainsaws for hands and also a chainsaw for a head) says: "As you become increasingly alone... your heart aches, doesn't it?"
Panels 2 and 3 consist of the character Yoru (the devil Horseman of War, inhabiting the body of a high school girl) reacting with increasing levels of shock and incredulity.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Fujimoto has still got the juice. No one has ever had the juice more than this man, in fact. #chainsawman #csm221

A panel from the manga Chainsaw Man. The character Yoru, a schoolgirl possessed by the devil Horseman of War, shouts out: "PEOPLE OF OREGON!! GIVE ME POWER!!"

Yoru uses a sword made out of the words "OREGON USA" to defend herself from Chainsaw Man, a devil-human hybrid with chainsaws for arms and also a chainsaw for a face.

Yoru deftly cuts Chainsaw Man in twain using the Oregon Sword.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Nail art charms are a great source of small 3d bits and greeblies for miniatures and terrain. Finding a lot of great stuff for Trench Crusade.

Small sculpted charms for use in nail art, made in the likenesses of the Blessed Virgin Mary and various saints

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Incredible development as my roommate has brought home some birthday cake from a party he was at. The stars have aligned and every sign has a meaning! My vision quest is complete!

An open deli container with a piece of leftover funfetti birthday cake inside of it.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I was able to self-actualize and eat a raspberry donut. Thank you Blue Star Donuts on Division for helping me make my dreams come true. Sadly they did not have the "birthday pig" donut, but I figured that one was kind of a reach.

A donut behind a glass case. A label above the donut reads: Raspberry Rosemary Old-Fashioned - fresh raspberries, fresh rosemary, signature buttermilk cake

A raspberry-iced old-fashioned donut rests on a greasy napkin. The donut has several large bites taken out of it.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Okay so the like top C button controls the PoV because it's link's "head" the bag with his items is below that on the other C buttons, and then your "arms" for sword and action are A and B. This is something I half-remember from an interview video years and years ago so don't quote me.

A diagram of the controls for Zelda Ocarina of Time

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Scenes from Mordheim: the Skaven get in over their heads

Several miniature toy soldiers are positioned as if fighting one another. Two hunchbacked rat creatures are menaced by a pair of much larger reptilian humanoids.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If the Adidas puffer vest for dogs is a China-exclusive than this truly is the Chinese Century. We live at the end of the American empire.

A dog modeling an Adidas puffer vest, costum-made to fit a dog. The dog appears anxious in the way that small dogs are prone to.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#chainsawman A lot of people are suggesting that it wouldn't be out of character for Gavin Newsom to make pacts with devils. However CSM pt. 2 takes place during the year 1999, when the governor was Gray Davis (assuming no other major deviations from the timeline). Gray Davis would have too, though.

Comic panel from Chainsaw Man. Asa Mitaka, possessed by the Devil of War Yoru, tilts her head back and says smugly: "I made a contract with the governor of California. In exchange for me not attacking California... the citizens of California will shoulder the burdens of my deaths."

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thinking thoughts like "The 40k Sisters of Battle army is a footsies mixup/comeback character" because they have an ideal engagement distance with several different specialized weapons (bolter and flamer for infantry, melta for armor) and a lot of buff abilities that proc when they take damage.

A Sister of Battle miniature for Warhammer 40,000. A woman soldier with black armor and a white bob haircut holds a grenade and pulls the pin out with her clenched teeth.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The paradox of tolerance is that tolerance of intolerance (ketchup) is leads to the death of a tolerant society.

A sticker affixed to what appears to be a lamppost. On the sticker is an image of three hands gripping a rifle. Text on the sticker reads: "NO KETCHUP. NO FASCISTS." and "WE KEEP US SAFE." followed by "CHICAGOSRA.ORG"

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A Chainsaw Man shitpost for probably just @bantolasyn.bsky.social and no one else

Comic panels comprised of images of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor playing a show. For comic purposes, Trent’s face has been replaced with the cartoon heart mascot of mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto, apurhor of Chainsaw Man. Captions are as follows:

PANEL 1: How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to have fun?
PANEL 2: Well that was the last guys. Wrong fucking mangaka.
PANEL 3: We’re here to have a bad time.
PANEL 4: (New issue of Chainsaw Man)

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Umamusume is a gacha game, but it's a weird one in that the core gameplay loop is an hour-plus RNG-heavy rougelite time management sim visual novel. I'd say watch a couple eps of the anime, and if you become enamored with any of the horse girls give them game a shot. Pic is Gold Ship, the ADHD horse

Illustrations of an anime girl based on the racehorse Gold Ship compared with photographs of the irl horse Gold Ship. In each set, the horse and the anime girl alike are engaged in wacky and nonsensical poses

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

irl Haru Urara lost all 113 of her races, all of which were at the Kōchi racecourse. So she only performed at her local venue, and she lost all her matches? This is a horse jobber. This horse is "local enhancement talent."

A brown horse in a stable with has a label reading "Haru Urara." A hand presents a keychain to the disinterested horse m the keychain bears an image of the character Haru Urara from the Umamusume - a version of the horse reimagined as a cute anime girl.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Yoru's scars supposedly looking like the Lockheed-Martin logo? Like all good Chainsaw Man speculation, this notion occupies the superposition between "desperate nerds overreaching on an obvious coincidence" and "Tatsuki Fujimoto is a 5D brain genius let my man cook"

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Yes exactly! The "Onion Johnny!" These dudes were French farmers and merchants from mostly Brittany. Starting in the 1800s, it was easier and more profitable to cross the channel and and sell the harvest in England than it was to make the overland trip to Paris and the central French markets.

A black-and-white photo. On a cobblestone city street, Aaman with a bindle of tied-together onions over his super stops to talk to two small children. Implying his Frenchness, the man is wearing a beret.

A black-and-white photo. A man rides a bicycle on a bit street. He is wearing a jacket, sweater, and beret. The handlebars of his bicycle are festooned with braided bundles of onions.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

BJ is however the grandfather of Commander Keen ("Billy Blaze" aka William Blazkowicz), as implied by images from the (bad) Commander Keen mobile game and confirmed by the devs. The adult Keen with his kids is in the middle, a faded photo of Grandpa BJ on the right, and BJ's girls on the left.

Screenshot from I'd Software's shareware classic Commander Keen. A child with a football helmet stands in a cartoon forest.

Screenshot from a promo image for the Commander Keen mobile game. A view of a wall of family photos in the now-adult Keen's home. A photo in the center shows the adult Keen, still wearing a football helmet, cradling twin children, both of whom are also wearing football helmets. On the right is a faded picture of BJ Blazkowicz from the Wolfenstein series, implied to be Keen's grandfather. To the left side is a picture of Blazkowicz's daughters Jessie and Zofia from Wolfenstein Youngblood.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sort of the concept behind "Maniac of New York" by Elliott Kalan. A Jason type guy starts popping up in NYC. He'll show up and machete an entire baseball stadium or highschool or whatever, and the cops and the mayor just throw up their hands like welp! Can't be helped! This is the new normal!

Cover to the comic "Maniac of New York" by Elliott Kalan. A Jason Voorhees type guy looms over a Bronx skyline

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Our Mordheim play group became very fond of this particular rule advising that players use literally all the terrain that they own. The real game is about striking a balance between maximum density and avoiding knocking a bunch of stuff over every time you reach to move your models.

Excerpt from the Mordheim rulebook, from the section about pre-game set up. A passage is highlighted: "you should place all the terrain you have."

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I was always struck with the design of Planet Apokalips. A Jewish WWII vet draws a design for the most evil place in the universe. The epicenter of a cosmic-scale regime of fascist misery. And he draws it with open furnaces so big that they're visible from orbit. Kirby wasn't a subtle guy!

A comic panel by Jack Kirby, of the planet Apokalips from the New Gods saga from DC Comics.
The planet is a hellish network of wastelands and industrial cityscapes. Vast open pits spew out first energy into space.

Text captions in the image:
"Beyond the brittle barriers of sanity there is the planet Apokalips..."
"Here, where even mile-high columns of flame spewed ceaselessly by awesome energy-pits fail to penetrate the eternal darkness, joy is unknown and hope is a capital offense..."
"Here, there is no pride, there is no passion, there is no pity; there is only order --"
"-- Complete, absolute, immutable!"

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Gender is a spectrum (of narrative skirmish tabletop miniatures wargames)

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

lol I thought that pose looked like Miss Sakisama

Japanese women's professional wrestler Miss Sakisama poses as though on a fashion magazine cover whilst laying her knee into the chest of her opponent (Japanese women's pro wrestler Miyu Yamashita).

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thinking about the time that Grant Imahara was a male model for a steampunk fashion label. RIP in peace king

Mythbusters cast member Grant Imahara models a shiny leather coat with a profusion of superfluous belt buckles. He is wearing a tophat and heavy eyeliner.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I'm still mad that they cancelled Megaman Legends 3 and I will die mad about it.

Cover illustration for the cancelled videogame Megaman Legends 3. Megaman (a blue robot boy) jumps though the air. Behind him are a variety of fanciful airships, flying motorcycles, and other robot people.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I'm eternally a fan of Yuki Kawaguchi. Yes I am a pervert for the thicc grils he draws. But more than that, I was truly impressed with the spite and bitterness he managed to put down on the page for the ending of Hunters Guild after it got cancelled. You could really feel his contempt. That's art!

A panel from one of the final issues of Hunters Guild: Red Hood by Yuki Kawaguchi.
An old bearded man, tried and despondent, looks directly toward the audience and says: "Let's just END it. Not a HAPPY ending. Not a TRAGIC ending. JUST AN END TO EVERYTHING."

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One day the Muhammad was at his home studying when he was joined by his cat Muezza, who snuggled up and fell asleep. Upon hearing the call to prayer, he began to get up, but noticed Muezza was asleep on his sleeve. With a knife, he gently cut off the sleeve and tiptoed away to pray, minus one sleeve

Inside of a dome-ceilinged mosque, a small striped cat sleeps on a rolled-up prayer mat.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Rushing to finish my Sisters of Sigmar before the Mordheim tournament at #3DRPCON this weekend. These are made mostly out of Sister of Battle models with the fleur-de-lis details shaved off, heavily converted with fantasy bits. My greenstuff work is rougher than I'd like, but overall I'm pleased.

Unpainted miniature toy soldiers in the likeness of warrior nuns. A group of Sisters of Sigmar in nuns habits, armed with warhammers and shields.

Unpainted miniature toy soldiers in the likeness of warrior nuns. A group of young novices wearing sackcloth, with their hair roughly shorn, brandish spiked clubs.

Unpainted miniature toy soldiers in the likeness of warrior nuns. Two blind prophetesses wearing elaborate robes, carrying ornamented staves bearing the twin-tailed comet icon of the god-king Sigmar.

Unpainted miniature toy soldiers in the likeness of warrior nuns. Elite armored leaders of the sisters with a variety of weapons; blessed hammers, a heavy maul, and a steel whip.

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ModeSevenGraphics @modesevengraphics.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hey everyone check out this dog I saw last week.

A stout looking Welsh corgi (a type of medium-small sized dog with short legs) looks directly at the viewer. The dog's tongue hangs out of its mouth. The dog is wearing a small and specially-made dog-sized baseball cap.

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